Inspector Ghote Plays a Joker

Name: Inspector Ghote Plays a Joker
Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780099502807

by Unknown Author

192 pages1987Random House UKISBN 9780099502807

Mystery Crime Fiction Thriller

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About this book

Inspector Ghote embarks on a strange case when he is ordered to prevent the killing of a flamingo in the Bombay zoo. And then there is the racehorse fancied to win the Derby, which gets replaced by a donkey. . . . Saddled with a sergeant of hilarious incompetence, he unearths the traces of a monstrous practical joker.

Publication Details

Publisher: Random House UK
Published: 1987
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9780099502807
Language: en

About Unknown Author

H.R.F. Keating (full name Henry Reymond Fitzwalter Keating) (31 October 1926 – 27 March 2011) was the creator of Inspector Ghote of the Bombay Police, whose first appearance in *The Perfect Murder* (1964) won the author the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger and an Edgar Allan Poe award from the Mystery Writers of America. He eventually wrote twenty-six Ghote novels. *The Murder of the Maharajah* brought H.R.F. Keating a second Gold Dagger in 1980. Mr Keating, a past Chairman of the Society of Authors and of the Crime Writers Association, was crime reviewer for The Times from 1967 to 1983. Among the books about his art he had written or edited is *Whodunit*, a guide to crime, suspense and spy fiction. He wrote three books under the pseudonym Evelyn Hervey.